Riskcovery

CVE-2025-20122

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 7, 2025
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Reserved
Oct 10, 2024

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Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain privileges of the root user on the underlying operating system.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An authenticated attacker with read-only privileges on the SD-WAN Manager system could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the CLI of the SD-WAN Manager. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-300 Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN ManagerCisco
  • 20.1.12Affected
  • 19.2.1Affected
  • 18.4.4Affected
  • 18.4.5Affected
  • 20.1.1.1Affected
  • 20.1.1Affected
  • 19.3.0Affected
  • 19.2.2Affected
  • 19.2.099Affected
  • 18.3.6Affected
  • 18.3.7Affected
  • 19.2.0Affected
  • 18.3.8Affected
  • 19.0.0Affected
  • 19.1.0Affected
  • 18.4.302Affected
  • 18.4.303Affected
  • 19.2.097Affected
  • 19.2.098Affected
  • 17.2.10Affected
  • 18.3.6.1Affected
  • 19.0.1aAffected
  • 18.2.0Affected
  • 18.4.3Affected
  • 18.4.1Affected
  • and 278 more versions

References

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